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Game Preview: KCR @ CHW, 2:10pm, Sunday, May 13, 2012 @U.S. Cellular Field

Royals, 12-20, 12-20 4th, 5½ GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Danny Duffy (23, LHP, 2-2, 4.00)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-2) 27.0 26 13 12 17 27 2 4.00
2011 (4-8) 105.1 119 66 66 51 87 15 5.64
Last 7 GS 3-2 38.1 36 21 20 23 35 3 4.70 48
2012-05-08 BOS ND 4.1 7 4 3 5 1 0 102 31
2012-05-03 NYY W 5.1 6 2 2 2 6 0 90 52
2012-04-22 TOR L 4.2 5 4 4 5 5 0 113 38
2012-04-16 DET L 6.2 7 3 3 1 7 2 106 54
2012-04-10 @OAK W 6.0 1 0 0 4 8 0 103 74
2011-09-06 @OAK W 6.1 4 3 3 3 4 0 119 54
2011-09-01 @DET ND 5.0 6 5 5 3 4 1 92 36
Last 5 v.CHW 1-0 7.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 2.57 63
2011-07-19 CHW W 7.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 94 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-13   Road:    8-7    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:  10-15   vsLHP:   2-5    1-Run:   4-6 
 vsEast:  4-7    vsCntrl: 5-10   vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 32 Sat, May 12  @CHW  W   5-0       12-20  4th  5.5 gb
 31 Fri, May 11  @CHW  L   0-5       11-20  4th  6.5 gb
 30 Wed, May  9   BOS  W   4-3       11-19  4th  6.0 gb
 29 Tue, May  8   BOS  W   6-4       10-19  4th  7.0 gb
 28 Mon, May  7   BOS  L   5-11       9-19  4th  8.0 gb
 27 Sun, May  6   NYY  L   4-10       9-18  4th  6.5 gb
 26 Sat, May  5   NYY  W   5-1        9-17  4th  5.5 gb
 25 Fri, May  4   NYY  L   2-6        8-17  4th  6.5 gb
 24 Thu, May  3   NYY  W   4-3        8-16  4th  5.5 gb
 23 Wed, May  2  @DET  W   3-2        7-16  4th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:11-19
WhiteSox, 16-18, 16-18 3rd, 2½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Philip Humber (29, RHP, 1-2, 6.83)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-2) 27.2 27 21 21 14 28 5 6.83
2011 (9-9) 163.0 151 71 68 41 116 14 3.75
2010 (2-1) 21.2 22 10 10 7 16 1 4.15
Last 7 GS 1-3 40.1 37 29 29 20 41 7 6.47 47
2012-05-07 @CLE L 2.1 9 8 8 2 1 1 62 6
2012-05-02 CLE ND 6.0 4 3 3 6 6 1 107 52
2012-04-26 BOS L 5.0 8 9 9 3 5 3 115 17
2012-04-21 @SEA W 9.0 0 0 0 0 9 0 96 96
2012-04-16 BAL ND 5.1 6 1 1 3 7 0 115 56
2011-09-28 TOR ND 6.2 2 1 1 4 9 0 106 71
2011-09-22 @CLE L 6.0 8 7 7 2 4 2 100 30
Last 5 v.KCR 0-0 6.0 9 6 5 2 4 1 7.50 34
2011-09-16 @KCR ND 6.0 9 6 5 2 4 1 107 34
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-10   Road:   10-8    ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  14-12   vsLHP:   2-6    1-Run:   2-6 
 vsEast:  2-6    vsCntrl: 9-8    vsWest:  5-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 34 Sat, May 12   KCR  L   0-5       16-18  3rd  2.5 gb
 33 Fri, May 11   KCR  W   5-0       16-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 32 Wed, May  9  @CLE  W   8-1       15-17  3rd  3.0 gb
 31 Tue, May  8  @CLE  W   5-3 (10)  14-17  3rd  4.0 gb
 30 Mon, May  7  @CLE  L   2-3       13-17  3rd  5.0 gb
 29 Mon, May  7  @CLE  L   6-8       13-16  3rd  5.0 gb
 28 Sun, May  6  @DET  L   1-3       13-15  3rd  3.0 gb
 27 Sat, May  5  @DET  W   3-2       13-14  3rd  2.0 gb
 26 Fri, May  4  @DET  L   4-5       12-14  3rd  3.0 gb
 25 Thu, May  3   CLE  L   5-7       12-13  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 12, 2012 KCR  5 @CHW  0        W:Luke Hochevar (3-3), L: Chris Sale (3-2), S: none
Fri, May 11, 2012 CHW  5  KCR  0        W:Gavin Floyd (3-3), L: Felipe Paulino (1-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 25, 2011 KCR  2 @CHW  1        W:Luis Mendoza (2-0), L: Gavin Floyd (12-13), S: Greg Holland (4)
Sat, Sep 24, 2011 CHW  6  KCR  3        W:John Danks (8-12), L: Everett Teaford (2-1), S: none
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 KCR 11 @CHW  1        W:Bruce Chen (12-8), L: Zach Stewart (2-6), S: none
Sun, Sep 18, 2011 CHW 10 @KCR  5        W:John Danks (7-12), L: Bruce Chen (11-8), S: none
Sat, Sep 17, 2011 KCR 10  CHW  3        W:Everett Teaford (2-0), L: Zach Stewart (2-5), S: Nathan Adcock (1)
Fri, Sep 16, 2011 KCR  7  CHW  6        W:Greg Holland (5-1), L: Matt Thornton (1-5), S: none
Thu, Sep 15, 2011 KCR  7  CHW  2        W:Jeff Francis (6-16), L: Mark Buehrle (11-9), S: none
Sun, Aug 14, 2011 CHW  6  KCR  2        W:John Danks (5-9), L: Jeff Francis (4-13), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - tied 1-1; 2011 - KCR won 11-7; 2010 - CHW won 10-8; All-Time - CHW leads 343-303

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. 		OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2012 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed
MLB Best, Middle, Worst
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  5.71

ARI  4.09

PIT  2.85

 RA/G

WSN  2.94

HOU  4.06

BOS  5.61

 BA

J. Hamilton  .402

J. Montero  .261

B. Ryan  .149

 OBP

D. Wright  .489

E. Bonifacio  .333

C. Barmes  .184

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .877

D. Fowler  .415

B. Morel  .200

 OPS

J. Hamilton  1.334

A. Pagan  .751

B. Morel  .420

 ERA

R. Dempster  1.02

C. Sabathia  3.51

C. Buchholz  8.31

 K/9IP

G. Gonzalez  10.79

D. Haren  7.33

H. Alvarez  2.61

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Royals Batters (3.88 RS/G) vs. WhiteSox Pitchers (3.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Humber
G/S/vB		 65.Jones
G/S/vB		 77.Ohman*
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 53.Santiago*
G/S/vB		 48.Stewart
G/S/vB		 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 5/1.100 1/.000 5/.400 1/.000 ··· 10/1.150 12/.523 136/103 .291/.338/.504/.842 .697/.887 .921 98/.814 0/1 6/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 67/47 .311/.343/.361/.704 .683/.713 .881 57/.709 3/1 0/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 4/.000 1/.000 4/1.750 ··· ··· 8/2.000 3/.000 117/93 .277/.302/.429/.730 .750/.725 .609 80/.749 7/1 1/3
19.Falu# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/7 .500/.500/.750/1.250 1.400/1.143 1.000 12/1.250 0/0 0/0
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 4/1.500 1/.000 4/1.167 1/.000 2/.000 10/.900 4/.250 129/101 .233/.287/.308/.595 .606/.592 .570 92/.566 0/2 0/0
17.Getz* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.000 76/57 .292/.347/.431/.778 .590/.840 .763 55/.762 5/1 0/1
9.Giavotella G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/.000 ··· 9/2 .000/.111/.000/.111 .143/.000 .200 9/.111 0/0 0/0
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 7/.629 1/.000 5/.400 ··· ··· 8/1.464 10/.875 143/102 .264/.357/.424/.781 .766/.786 .791 104/.909 1/1 4/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 9/1.444 6/.500 135/97 .179/.252/.341/.593 .439/.654 .578 93/.528 1/1 5/2
12.Maier* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 8/.393 47/43 .200/.319/.350/.669 1.250/.603 .868 34/.674 1/0 1/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· 2/.500 1/2.000 2/.000 8/1.750 3/.666 116/95 .308/.362/.523/.885 .931/.875 .751 84/.919 1/0 4/2
27.Pena# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 58/42 .250/.276/.357/.633 .500/.685 .491 42/.538 0/0 0/1
33.Quintero G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 64/56 .241/.297/.379/.676 .250/.727 .806 46/.586 0/1 1/3
IP 27.2 14.1 11.2 10.0 12.0 9.1 13.1 TOTAL .259/.315/.404/.720 .634/.747 .699 .717 20/11 23/19
ERA-K/9 6.83/9.1 1.26/8.8 5.40/3.1 0.00/12.6 5.25/12.0 2.89/3.9 4.05/7.4 3.50/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (9-8-1)
 Quintero (17-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 124/.248 58/.196 47/.227 38/.143 58/.321 43/.357 57/.278 .227  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Dyson
 Maier
0/0/31/5
31/0/0/1
0/15/0/0
0/11/1/0
OPS .797 .489 .640 .411 1.021 .872 .742 .660
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 96/.820 26/.279 28/.368 15/.467 26/.885 16/.750 24/.683 .662
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 28/.721 32/.661 19/1.035 23/.367 32/1.153 27/.944 33/.785 .658
Home 79/.923 39/.482 27/.756 19/.780 19/.993 37/.865 17/.610
Last 28d days 124/.797 45/.481 34/.456 22/.332 47/1.116 40/.938 35/.888
HR/SB/CS 5/2/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 5/0/0 1/1/1 2/0/0 35/7/10
Usage ·····X·· X··X···o o··o·oo· ····X··o ·o··X·XX X·····X· ·o···X··
WhiteSox Batters (3.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 51.Broxton
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 32.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Beckham G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.667 1/.000 3/.666 2/.000 7/.858 113/91 .216/.283/.333/.617 .573/.627 .592 88/.658 1/1 2/2
30.De Aza* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 149/114 .282/.362/.443/.805 .394/.932 .755 115/.816 6/2 3/1
32.Dunn* G/S/vP ··· 6/.500 2/.500 3/1.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 146/106 .248/.390/.607/.997 .436/1.201 .996 112/1.077 0/0 11/0
38.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 33/28 .133/.188/.200/.388 .800/.305 .301 26/.247 1/0 0/1
17.Flowers G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 24/13 .143/.250/.333/.583 .636/.508 1.025 17/.435 1/0 1/0
1.Fukudome* G/S/vP 6/1.000 5/.600 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 44/41 .171/.295/.200/.495 .333/.499 .250 35/.507 0/1 0/0
14.Konerko G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 6/.000 ··· 4/1.750 6/.167 3/.000 137/102 .331/.409/.554/.962 1.029/.941 .862 103/.931 0/0 6/0
18.Lillibridge G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 36/27 .161/.229/.161/.390 .111/.487 .311 31/.419 7/1 0/0
22.Morel G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/2.500 4/.500 ··· 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 105/79 .179/.220/.200/.420 .467/.405 .432 75/.454 4/1 0/3
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.417 ··· 2/.500 4/.250 8/.625 117/97 .259/.308/.444/.752 .876/.726 .867 92/.708 0/0 5/1
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· ··· 6/1.167 1/.000 4/.000 6/.000 3/.666 142/113 .199/.216/.257/.473 .634/.431 .544 111/.432 2/1 1/3
51.Rios G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 5/.000 7/.929 2/2.500 132/104 .283/.333/.400/.733 .526/.788 .596 108/.747 4/3 1/1
24.Viciedo G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/1.500 103/82 .202/.233/.313/.546 .714/.502 .675 77/.424 0/0 3/0
IP 27.0 11.2 16.2 16.1 17.1 7.1 1.0 14.1 TOTAL .237/.305/.380/.686 .607/.708 .684 .675 26/10 33/17
ERA-K/9 4.00/9.0 1.54/5.4 3.78/12.4 2.76/8.8 3.63/7.8 9.82/16.0 0.00/0.0 2.51/8.2 4.70/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flowers (1-5-0)
 Pierzynski (6-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 118/.257 48/.237 70/.219 65/.175 68/.219 40/.371 3/.000 61/.278 .270  De Aza
 Rios
 Fukudome
 Viciedo
 Lillibridge
0/33/0/0
0/0/32/0
8/1/2/0
27/0/0/0
12/0/0/0
OPS .780 .664 .693 .505 .733 .936 .000 .717 .778
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 26/.511 23/.583 31/.823 26/.410 25/.969 15/1.303 1/.000 31/.472 .776
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 92/.863 25/.729 39/.599 39/.569 43/.600 25/.718 2/.000 30/.977 .780
Road 21/.356 25/.623 39/.407 32/.677 31/.855 20/.633 3/.000 27/.459
Last 28d days 97/.868 31/.691 42/.535 48/.490 49/.572 17/1.029 3/.000 38/.728
HR/SB/CS 2/2/1 0/0/1 3/5/0 1/0/1 4/2/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/1/1 29/26/13
Usage ····X··· ···Xo··· ·o···o·o X··o·X·· ·X··XX·X o······· ·o······ ····X··X

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.